Prohibition in Turkey by Evered, Emine Ö.;

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Historian Evered’s account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its communities’ rights to alcohol. The first author to reveal this experience’s connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how drinking practices reflected many of the changes that were underway.

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A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked—and even excluded—aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.

Historian Emine Ö. Evered's account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its heterogeneous communities and their varied rights to produce, market, and consume alcohol, or to simply abstain. The first author to reveal this experience's connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how—amid modernization, sectarianism, and imperial decline—drinking practices reflected, shifted, and even prompted many of the changes that were underway and that hastened the empire's collapse. Ultimately, Evered's book reveals how Turkey's alcohol question never went away but repeatedly returns in the present, in matters of popular memory, public space, and political contestation.

Tartalomjegyzék:

• List of Figures
• Note on Translation, Transliteration, Dates, and Names
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction. A Peculiar History
• Chapter 1. Ottoman Alcohol: Institutions, Traditions, and Ambiguities
• Chapter 2. Taverns, Drinks, and Drunkenness
• Chapter 3. Doctors, Drunken Bureaucrats, and Modern Temperance
• Chapter 4. America’s “Noble Experiment” and Its Reverberations Abroad
• Chapter 5. Parliamentary Politics and Alcohol in Early Republican Turkey
• Chapter 6. Drinking through Prohibition
• Chapter 7. From Repeal to Two Monopolies
• Conclusion. “Åžerefine Tayyip!”
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes